European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse E a t u r e. A j i Hobor a " i. A r Var 1 i we t i a it i i 1 1. % members of the pacifist son of Freedom Dou Kobors led knee to Pray after being arrested for terror act in British Columbia pacifism by violence by dal Nelson a staff writer to god. Old of letters with tote Uruguay postmarks that arrived in i Little Canadian town. When they arrived the men went bomb and Burn. I the picture painted by witnesses court session in Nelson ., of the strange pacifist sons Dou Kobors sect. Than 100 sons of Freedom a sentenced or face trial on charges of and bombing. Those sentenced a Luther terms from three to if years. Federal prison set up for Mem the sect of the defendants Alex Batchkoff terrorists got their orders from i Sorokin. Spiritual Leader of the 3.000pveedomttes. He said Sorokin a red bearded former who has lived in Uruguay used the word Pray to god Asfor terrorism witnesses agreed that leaders of including Sorokin ordered Tia in nearly 40 years of free a violence. -. Started with an attempt an aged icon Church in Wyn in Prtt 196l it has include Don orthodox Dou Hobor villages and railway tracks. It High Point in the dynamite no of Una Tower r 1000 men out of mayors in Interior Columbia Tetra matted it Dell it first let s look at the of peace Loving sect s of Freedom Are Radical Splon the Douk Abbors a pacifist which drone in Russia i Century during a schism in orthodox Church " is a Between 1840 and 1850, for refusing to Bear arms they were sent into a wild in Fertile Region near the turkish Frontier where they built communal colonies. When Czar Nicholas ii tried to draft thedous Kobors in 1895. They Laid huge bonfires at three of their settlements and burned their guns. The Czar s cossacks retaliating Ruseti their Lead tipped whips. Many Douk hobos were jailed. Others were exiled to fever Ridden swamps where More than 100 died before the next Spring. One of those touched by the Perse cution of the Dou Kobors was count Leo these dignified confident yet illiterate peasants is the germination of that seed sown by Christ himself he wrote. In 1698, the Dou Kobors were granted permission to emigrate. Tolstoy and the society of friends quakers of Londo spearheaded a fund raising Campaign Tol Stoy contributing the proceeds from his novel the resurrection.". After an unsuccessful Effort to colonize in Cyprus it was too hot among other thing the Dou Kobors set their sights Lor Canada. The Canadian Pacific railway seeking Section hands customers and farm ers to develop the land along its right of Way agreed to help them get located. Forty five Hundred Dou Kobors the Menin High sheepskin hats and the women in head shawls made the trip in two crowded nips in the whiter of 1898-89. They settled in Saskatchewan. When some of them did t have enough Money to get through the Winter of 1899-1900, the society of friends of Philadelphia chipped in $36,000.there was Well As hardship. Vladimir Bench Bru Vilch a russian revolutionary who Acampa Nied the emigrants wrote in a russian Magazine already toward the end of 1890, i made acquaintance with some Dou Kobors who. Had come to the conclusion that All rites Are useless including even the Douk Hobor rites. That a far Freer life these Dou Kobors were to become the sons of this time Peter the lordly Veri Gin a Dou Hobor Leader who had been exiled to Siberia joined his followers. In 1909, he led them into the Kootenay pronounced coot knee Region of Southeastern British Columbia. They bought a Jam factory with $100,000verigin had borrowed from a loan company in Saskatoon. In world War i the Douk hobos refused to fight but sent a ship ment of Jam for the troops in France. The factory at Brilliant ., was burned in 1943.the Dou Kobors planted Orchards and vineyards and sold bricks from their own kilns to the government. Gradually the orthodox Dou Kobors adjusted to Canadian ways. Today they num Ber about 17,000 in the our Western prov inces of Canada. The number includes Doc tors and lawyers artists and engineers the sons of Freedom continued to draw away. Many moved to Bleak settlement overlooking the Small Swift Crescent began a curious custom of Parad ing naked and in 1924 were blamed for burning orthodox Dou Hobor , a Little after 1 . On oct. 29.1924, a dynamite explosion rocked a passenger car in a train which had just pulled away from Farron Killed were a sikh from India a professional hockey player a Brit ish Columbia legislator a Young woman and the woman s travelling companion Peter the lordly Verigin. The authorities never found out who did neither fight in Canada wars not vote in its elections. They were disenfranchised As a result of their exemption from military service. The sons of Freedom have complained that Canadian schools teach Militar ism. In 1930 Canada a just fre edomite Chil Dren in a special school the province established in a converted sanitarium. They stayed,.there, despite renewed nudism an terrorism until 1969 Whan free dolt women promised to Send them to Cana Dian schools and got hem . Probably the closest the fre edomite Vio Lence has come to the United states was the bombing in August 1958 of a Posl offic at Osoyoos About two Miles from the Boundary with Washington state. Altogether there have been More than400 cases of arson Anil dynamite no in the Kootenay urea since 1924. The terrors Inbeden described by and nude Partt Des As protein fun against War against compulsory education and against individual land owned i p. Other explanations Are Given by or. Al Fred Shulman Baltimore psychiatrist an member of a team commissioned by British Columbia to study the Elm Hobor problem. The violence and malty Shulman said Are a Corm of Rehelio v against repressive training and an sex passion of guilt feel Ings at indulgence in Usu rates. The psychiatrist Andi his colleague also noted that terrorism increases in times of economic insecurity. British Columbia i now in a period of i High unemployment. The word Dou Hobor Means spirit wrestler or combat Jat in the i British Columbia the Jeom Bat in the spirit continues. Stars and stapes
